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To a mother and daughter on an illuminating pilgrimage, this is what the desert said: Carry only what you need. Burn what can't be saved. Leave the remnants as an offering.
When Kimberly Meyer gave birth to her first daughter, Ellie, during her senior year of college, the bohemian life of exploration she had once imagined for herself was lost in the responsibilities of single motherhood. For years, both mother and daughter were haunted by how Ellie came into being-Kimberly through a restless ache for the world beyond, Ellie through a fear of abandonment.
Longing to bond with Ellie, now a college student, and longing, too, to rediscover herself, Kimberly sets off with her daughter on a quest for meaning across the globe. Leaving behind the rhythms of ordinary life in Houston, Texas, they dedicate a summer to retracing the footsteps of Felix Fabri, a medieval Dominican friar whose written account of his travels resonates with Kimberly. Their mother-daughter pilgrimage takes them to exotic destinations infused with mystery, spirituality, and rich history-from Venice to the Mediterranean through Greece and partitioned Cyprus, to Israel and across the Sinai Desert with Bedouin guides, to the Palestinian territories and to Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt.
In spare and gorgeous prose, The Book of Wanderings tells the story of Kimberly and Ellie's journey, and of the intimate, lasting bond they forge along the way. A meditation on stripping away the distractions, on simplicity, on how to live, this is a vibrant memoir with the power to both transport readers to far-off lands and to bring them in closer connection with themselves. It will appeal to anyone who has contemplated the road not taken, who has experienced the gnawing feeling that there is something more, who has faced the void-of offspring leaving, of mortality looming, of searching for someplace that feels, finally, like home.
- Sales Rank: #742310 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-24
- Released on: 2015-03-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.50" h x 1.25" w x 6.33" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 368 pages
Review
"The Book of Wanderings is about both the intrinsically private and the universally enduring need for pilgrimage: to the sites that restore and reward, to the experience of wondering and wandering and connecting, whether with family or the whole human race. Meyer brings this insatiable urge to pursue enlightenment of the journey home to the reader. Home to the ordinary suburban American in the very chaotic 21st century. There's no one who won't recognize some aspect of herself in these pages. They offer insights both mystical and practical. It is a book to cherish."―Antonya Nelson, author of Bound and Funny Once
"Meyer's poetic voice and sincerity make this quest not a gimmick but a richly felt expedition.... The book's life comes from Meyer's pondering the years of waiting and wondering if she would ever do what she had dreamed of so long ago and whether it would bring her all that she hoped. An uncommonly rich and spiritual book, The Book of Wanderings speaks not just to satisfying wanderlust but to finding home in this world or beyond."―Eloise Kinney, Booklist
"Expansive [and] finely observed."―Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe
"Intriguing and ambitious.... Meyer has a keen eye for detail and a graceful way with words. Her descriptions are brilliantly crafted - so ripe one is transported with her.... The arduousness and soul-baring nature of the long journey seems to have stripped her down to her essence, and she is able to confidently experience and tell the story in her own words, excellently, compellingly."―Sharon Peters, USA Today
"Meyer's memoir about her pilgrimage with her daughter Ellie will make you feel virtually transported to some of the world's most exotic and rich locations (Venice, Cyprus, Alexandria), but that's not the most rewarding part. Her story of forging and solidifying her bond with daughter Ellie is what will impact you the most deeply, leaving you with an intense need to talk to your mom."―Lynsey Eidell, Glamour
"Meyer ably contrasts the mundane frustrations of travel-language confusion, unfamiliar food, unreliable transportation-and the transcendent moments when you make that ineffable connection with those who came before you, 'swallowed up...in...the sweep of historical time.'"―Michelle Newby, Lone Star Literary Life
"A powerful memoir of family connections, what it means to undertake a shared pilgrimage, and the encounters and forces that change lives.... Perfect for mothers and daughters to read together."―Midwest Book Review
"A meditation of stripping away distractions and embracing simplicity [that] will take you on the road less traveled and show you that the world has so much to offer."―Working Mother
About the Author
Kimberly Meyer holds a doctoral degree in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston, where she was the recipient of several fellowships and grants. Her essays have appeared widely in magazines and journals and have been anthologized in the Best American Travel Writing. She teaches literature courses in the Great Books at the University of Houston, and lives in that thriving, multicultural city of no zoning with her husband and daughters.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Intriguing / Thought provoking
By chris
Such an intriguing read. Questions of parent/child bond are posed, some answered others left for the reader to ponder. An underlying theme of the book is the current day Middle East drama. Two Western women coursing through the region, accompanied only by devout Muslim men, creates an interesting tension that left me questioning the generally accepted media portrayal of the ME. The book accomplished what I respect in a good read - it left me thinking long after I finished the last page.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Equal parts memoir, travelogue, philosophical treatise, and love letter to her firstborn daughter
By Texasbooklover
Memoir / Travel
KIMBERLY MEYER
The Book of Wanderings:
A Mother-Daughter Pilgrimage
New York: Little, Brown
Hardcover, 978-0-316-25121-1 (also available as ebook and audiobook)
368 pages, $27.00
March 24, 2015
The Book of Wanderings: A Mother-Daughter Pilgrimage by Houston professor Kimberly Meyer is equal parts memoir, travelogue, philosophical treatise, and love letter to her firstborn daughter, Ellie. Meyer yearned for a “bohemian-explorer-intellectual kind of life” but became pregnant in her senior year of college. After Ellie is born, Meyer attends grad school, marries, and gives birth to two more daughters. She sets aside youthful ambitions until she comes across The Book of the Wanderings of Brother Felix Fabri in the Holy Land, Arabia, and Egypt during dissertation research, a discovery that reawakens those earlier dreams.
Meyer and eighteen-year-old Ellie embark on a trip following Father Fabri’s footsteps: beginning in Ulm, Germany, proceeding south through Italy to Greece, across the Mediterranean to Israel and the Palestinian Territories, then south again into the Sinai desert, arriving two months later in Cairo. The juxtaposition between Fabri’s pilgrimage and the author’s reminds us that not much has changed in five hundred years. People still plunge into the Jordan River fully clothed. Bedouins still keep watch over flocks of sheep. Monks still walk the Via Dolorosa.
Meyer ably contrasts the mundane frustrations of travel—language confusion, unfamiliar food, unreliable transportation—and the transcendent moments when you make that ineffable connection with those who came before you, “swallowed up…in…the sweep of historical time.” There is elegant imagery: “When Mohammad Atwa Musa knocked on the door to retrieve me, all the women, as one, deftly lifted their veils to cover themselves, the movement like the taking flight of a flock of birds.” And vivid description: “Scattered across the undulating azure waves are Chinese junks, Indian dhows, European galleys and caravels. On land, in the spaces between the rivers and the place-names and the mountains, rise walled cities with their golden crenellated towers and minarets and onion domes and Gothic spires. In the deserts: conical tents, carmine and emerald and sapphire, their flaps open to the sirocco winds.”
With self-deprecating humor and gentle irony, Meyer describes their travels, attempts peace with dread of the rapidly approaching empty nest, and searches for spiritual solace that has always eluded her, struggling to balance the push of “pure possibility” and the pull of the familiar. But during the trip she’s conflicted and feels unmoored. “What did I want? To be essential to other human beings or to be free…? These were mutually exclusive options, even if we were pretending with this trip that I could have both.”
Confronting Sartre’s “God-shaped hole” in modern Western life, The Book of Wanderings contemplates the existential. Is home a particular place, person, or thing, or is it within us? Do we find ourselves there or when we leave? Is the search for objective truth futile? “We exist. We don’t know why. We die. We don’t know what follows. We love. What we love will leave us. We suffer though we have tried to be good. These aren’t questions and they don’t have answers.”
Originally published in Lone Star Literary Life.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A beautifully written literary memoir offering much to discuss
By ATLMomofTwo
Wow. This book is so much more than a mother-daughter tale of a trip taken together. It is a beautifully written story about the yearning in all of us to find deeper meaning in our lives. Meyer's writing has both a melody and a harmony as she describes her quest. I loved the way she would weave loose themes and threads, seemingly left unfinished, and then miraculously, tie them together into the fabric of the story when least expected. The mother-daughter duo go on a journey tracing the footsteps of a Dominican friar from 500 years ago. I often marveled first at the amount of detail available from the original pilgrimage, but also at the similarity of their journeys, despite the separation in time between them. Meyer demonstrates courage in telling her personal story, in embarking on a trip of this magnitude (I'm in awe of the complexity of planning it alone!), and in sharing deeply personal details that enable the reader to both understand and relate. There is something timeless about pilgrimages and the intertwining of the friar and Kimberly/Ellie's stories brings this point home. Be prepared to learn a lot - Kimberly's depth of knowledge and her ability to distill history to the salient points and integrate it into her story is admirable. I recommend this book to people who love a good literary read. It would be a great 'book club' book because it offers so much to discuss - religion, the choices we make - the paths we choose and the ones we don't, mother-daughter relationships, the experience of being a traveler in far away lands...the list goes on.
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